skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the link:

As a hosted continuous deployment service releasing changes and scaling automatically is a necessity.

I think the key here is that this blog is talking about a hosted service which responds on demand to their client's needs on an hourly basis. EC2 has a lot of infrastructure which does this for them (as long as they can automate it) and is specifically built for this, whereas they'd have to write it themselves by interfacing with a VPS API otherwise. So EC2 might be worth the money to them. VPS providers are mostly more focussed on giving you 1 or 2 boxes to use, and then you leave your site running with occasional adjustments in capacity etc, not on spinning up and down servers on demand, which is a bit more specialised, and might require tens or even hundreds of servers.

For a normal site that's not going to be relevant, and a VPS is cheaper, for this site, it seems EC2 is a better fit...
RSS feeds -> email subscriptions. With Google branded signup and Google branded mail.
That's why I like Mercurial a bit more. It takes a bit more work to shoot yourself in the foot from what I've noticed. They recently added the concept of "phases" so something is in draft state until you push to an external repo. At that point, the phase will change to public and it wont let you rebase it w/o doing a force command. You can also mark a branch as private and it wont accidentally get pushed out which is useful if you are doing some local prototyping.
And DPI and communication analysis is one of them.

The tech spec hints clearly that it is a DPI chip especially the 80Gbs ethernet. (And the company is funded by the french public sector)
I clicked through one of my sister's posts from an email the other day. It had been a while. I saw a funny graphic on Facebook.

Right after that, Facebook sent me an email. Subject: "Welcome back to Facebook."

Apparently I'm a reengaged monthly active user!
I'll continue to publish and consume feeds, regardless of what Google thinks. Lets not let them set the de-facto standards for the web.
Heh, not at all.
Google sold SketchUp to Trimble, so it's not something they never do.
This is HORRIBLE execution, I had to click three different links to help out in the campaign. Three different pages I had to wade through only to get to a hard to read form letter I am supposed to cut/paste somewhere and I guess mail to someone? After looking at the page that has the form letter, it just says to send it to the ITC, but does not even provide an address? It's just bad execution.

This page is probably generating less than 1% of the action it could generate if it was designed right. It kept babbling too much.

There is a link on the right to "sign now". That should be front and center in the main article text. it should be bigger and impossible to mix. It should be after the first or second paragraph.
Care to explain why you think it's a scam?
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Exactly. I bet "Pricing" would have an even higher CTR, since most people don't want to have to request anything, but want a simple list of products with prices.
A point I'd make is that we don't know how their internal processes are set up. There's definitely a bad actor somewhere, but it probably isn't the people you talk to.

Pretty much everyone universally reports that these aren't skilled workers. They're given a script, and they read it out. Their job is to deal with branches effectively and direct the conversation back on the script. They've been told that the person they're talking to has a virus--as reported by the company's skilled team of real elite computer gurus who claim to have fancy degrees from IIT or something--and they're apprentices who have the ability to help out those poor souls who probably have actually been downloading viruses of one sort or another.

There's no reason for them not to believe that the procedure that they've been given is something that will help their marks. The list of phone numbers? They definitely don't generate that themselves. I can imagine a workflow that insulates them from anything that reveals that they're pawns in a scam. Combine that with the fact that the job is probably relatively decently paying and "white collar" and the natural human aversion to thinking that you're doing a bad thing, and we've got an explanation.

Modern companies rely on abstraction as much as they can. If you build a service oriented architecture for your company, you decouple the explicitly evil part of what you do that requires a uniquely sociopathic personality from the more banal customer service oriented part that can be fulfilled by commodity labor.
bc gets it right

$ bc -l -q
.3 - .2 == .2 - .1
1
Being able to settle a dispute via a neutral third party is enticing. And I'm a big fan of arbitration.

But you're not thinking of arbitration, you're thinking of binding arbitration. That's where a 3rd party is picked (in these cases, picked by the corporation) and then both sides must do whatever that person says, regardless of whether they find it fair.
I'll bet you could tell some great stories from your AdSense days to illustrate your point.
RSS is only really useful as a conversation rate in communities. Take HN for example, it keeps you abreast of recent stories without having to open the page. In news sites, it's even more useful to scan the news. The conversation comes when users opt to partake in discussion.

That said, some sites do it badly, my personal experience of ARS Technica for example. I'll often see an interesting article I want to read, but then see something like "Read the other 52 paragraphs" and decide to come back later at which I never do. There's an art to creating feeds, almost like sales-people that excel at converting window shoppers into actual shoppers due to how they design their shop windows.
In this case I was primarily thinking of flourescent light from an LCD screen (would have mentioned CRTs, but that would have dated me a bit TOO much), but I agree completely about the life-killing quality of shitty overhead flourescent lamps. Sadly, the office I'm in right now is afflicted, although it mainly means that the ceiling lamps stay turned off and floor lamps are used instead.
That's an odd response - I'm unfamiliar when a civil contract binds a legal issue like that. Contracts are about money.
IMHO, the right thing to do would be to forbid the usage of == for decimals values.

1.0 == 0.9 -> Throw err
1.0 > 0.9 -> true

In most case, you don't want to use == on double because it 's very dangerous... it's way better to use (0.3 - 0.3000001) < 0.001 or something similar. So, by forbidding the == on doubles, you force the programmer to use a safer way. In the same time, it's a clean hack around this decimal issue. As a bonus, a programmer who doesn't know binaries arithmetic might get curious on why == isn't implemented on double and read on it.
I was going to say this sort of thing would be useful on reddit for subreddit stylesheets, but they allow uploading images. So there's no practical application at all.
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54, programming for 34 years. Numerous adventures in entrepreneurship, one of them successful. Came back to programming in the last few years because it's the most satisfying work for me. Making stuff that amazes people and makes their lives better is totally rewarding for me.

Nothing wrong with being a craftsman, using your intellect, and making others happy. In some ways, pursuing the elusive "big win" seems a little shallow by comparison.
Be sure to thank your employer for their insecurities and inferiority complexes with your next paycheck.
Thanks for the reference. It goes well with "Machine Learning that Matters", a paper cited by Terran Lane in his recent blog post "On leaving Academia".
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Ask HN: What are some optimal places to live in NYC?
I am going to be graduating from school soon and have my sights set on working for a startup in New York City (have already gotten a few offers). Now, what I was wondering is what would be the best place for me to live in terms of housing costs, proximity to cool places (nice bars, restaurants, music venues, art galleries et cetera), and overall interesting-ness of the area.

I've been looking at Bushwick in Brooklyn and Long Island City, but I am unsure of any other neighborhoods that would be worth a look.

Oh and if anyone is interested in getting together for drinks sometime and maybe coding up some projects, don't hesitate to drop me a line! My email is in my HN profile.
Setting up email subscription and delivery of your RSS feed is dead-simple in FeedBurner. That's a huge plus.
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>And worse (or better, depending on your tastes), just over the horizon is an explicit Patent Office rule change that will grant a patent to the first filer, regardless of whether or not that person has any connection to the creation of the idea being patented:

This is false.

The burden of proof has not changed. The only thing that has changed is determining who would be awarded a patent if two almost identical patents are filed around the same time.

In the previous system, the patent would be awarded to the party that could prove that they started working on the invention first, assuming that it passes the prior art check. You still have to prove that you actually created the invention in the first place.

In the new system, the patent is awarded to the party that files first, also assuming that it passes the prior art test. Again, you still have to prove that you created the invention. The rules changes here actually increases the prior art field, counting any published patents, and also including internationally filed patents.

The fact that the USPTO has had a bad track record with prior art checks has no bearing on this rule change. It's a separate issue.
> We only have until Friday, October 13, 2012 to stop Litepanels

Not to nitpick... but that date does not exist. I don't really want to throw out all their facts just because they got this simple one wrong. But it certainly puts their accuracy on other more important things in question.
Because everyone, including Adobe themselves, appears to revile it for displaying inline content?

If it doesn't play well with iThings, the greater internetosphere won't respond well to it.
I don't believe this actually came from Feedburner -- this is from a blogger who uses it.
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Stop reading after the second paragraph, quantum computing isn't some magic wand you wave at problems to make them disappear. It's simply a new way of approaching them, and it requires algorithms designed to take advantage of this new approach to computing to solve said problems.
This doesn't even make sense. If you are charging per click (or view), you don't charge more because of number of visitors, you make more because Revenue=CPCCTRViews (and Views is getting larger).
Cargo Bot looks great, thanks! Trying it tonight with my son.
Find it hilarious that this got marked down and yet it's something Mozilla have spent the last week moving towards getting this fixed.
The internet and cable television are different forms of broadcasting.
Also: If you don't own the keys to your CMS (see: newspaper-dot-coms), and your CMS changes (along with the URL to your RSS feeds), Feedburner allows you to keep your RSS subscribers.
It does not in Chrome.
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opened comments, ctrl+f "laid" because that's exactly what I thought
Get made - as in, initiate into the mafia through contract killing - I think is even worse.
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That costs extra.
One of the feeds I to which I subscribe, preemptively moved off of Feeedburner a couple days ago.

http://badassjs.com/post/32738175366/moving-off-feedburner-p...

The primary reason the author was using it was for the subscriber count. He created a quick script to wrap his feed to give him counts.

https://gist.github.com/3816875
I'm with you 100%. For an incredibly long time I've wanted to see Firefox assimilate the Brief extension. I especially hope they do so with all the furore surrounding Twitter.
great piece - i actually think about 2/3 of the points span well beyond just happiness at work, but in life in general...
SVGs are XML, which can be compressed transparently by the web server using GZip, which from my reading on the web typically gets around 70-80% compression on XML files, thus reducing the deficit fairly heavily.

Also, that first comparison chart? "Most browsers don't support the full SVG featureset" - Firefox 3.1, Chrome 1.0, Safari 3.2?
Google is using Feedburner in Blogspot. I do not expect them to shut it down without providing proper replacement. It would be absurd otherwise.
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> Linode is kind of pricey compared to other VPS providers.

Can you qualify this? The cost is lower than Amazon and Rackspace Cloud.

There are dime-store VPS providers out there that are technically less expensive, but they're usually not able to provide the same level of service. Linode always seems to provide exceptional customer support.
And facebook is not the internet or television, which is why it doesn't make any sense as an analogy. Comparing how many TV viewers MTV gets to how many internet users facebook gets would be a reasonable analogy. Comparing how many internet users facebook gets to how many people have cable is nonsensical.
I have no idea what it is, but "Cross platform (Mac + Windows)" lacks '+linux'
This is very good news for those of us that are actually looking to start a legitimate online pharmacy.
Totally agree with this. It's not that Apple did anything in particular, it's that they bring together the best of everything in a single device. Honestly, this has been their mode of operation from the beginning. They have decent vision but, at least under Jobs, execution is generally flawless.
They clearly have a different understanding of base 16 to us!
I get the impression that Tesla becoming cash flow positive is financial engineering. Do you have any idea how that would be done in the case of Tesla or in general?
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Funny. I was just finishing a chat with a colleague about a git strategy for a coming new release of a production product, then saw this post on top. I've been working on it without collaboration for about half a year now, so thats easy.. I've had mixed experience with both rebasing and pull strategies before that. I've found rebasing being a lot better when working with tightly coupled code. And pull being a lot cleaner in being able to cherry-pick and revert to previous states more easily.
rebase is indeed a destroyer.

We've now decided to use this model, while only deleting feature branches after RC acceptance.

http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

My colleague just suggested to rebase regularly from the develop branch while developing features
"I'm working on a branch.
someone - e.g. you - updates the develop branch.
I will have no info if that is related to my stuff or not
so, I should rebase regularly to the latest version of the develop branch"

I'm kinda clueless now. Git is really powerful and flexible in strageties, and that adds to complexity.
I love it when a candidate has some kind of public presence. The very first question in our online application asks, "Do you code outside of your day-to-day job? If so, what have you built, and how recently did you work on it? Be specific. Provide links if possible." I look for developers who get out into the community to learn and teach new ideas, new approaches. They might attend user groups, present, contribute to open source projects, etc. These kind of activities prove the candidate really lives and breathes this stuff. It's tough to fake passion. We have developers with projects on the side, libraries of Pluralsight courses they've developed, well-read blogs, eBooks on development topics, and some who get invited to speak regularly on podcasts like Hanselminutes and .NET Rocks. We encourage all of the above.

The point about trying to save time from a recruiting perspective are spot on. We really can get buried with candidates, and there isn't enough time in the day to get through them all. We work hard to create a really great place to work and a good reputation so candidates will be willing to do something like take a Codility test.
Their new SSD-based instances are supposed to be a lot faster, but has anyone benchmarked these?

My experience with EBS was the the performance was decent most of the time, but would brown out intermittently for reasons beyond your control.
Exactly. Price itself is not the main issue, but flexibility is.

For example on Weekends we typically see 20%-30% the traffic that we see during the week, simply because people are not at work. Scaling up and down is an absolute necessity there.
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I think you're making a lot of assumptions about how a service like their could work and does work. You don't need to write a lot of code to leverage VPS's or scale them, and you don't always need to scale up or down on an hourly basis.

I'll bet you that if they took the historical metrics of their services and their load use and averaged it, buying one or two boxes would easily break even and at the same time not be dependent on a specialized provider or functionality like an auto-scaling VPS.

But that's just a guess.
Completely disagree - it was an awful read, but please try http://www.colourlovers.com/ for the selecting, saving and organising of colours.
We'll be part of the Server and Tools Division, which includes things like Azure.

Consider me your inside contact. (though I can't go making any promises yet :-)
Linode charges up-front for the month, but if you terminate an instance early a pro-rated amount is credited to your account. The granularity is at least a day.
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And what's the city it's launching in? New York, I tell you!
Apologies for the gender snafu in that post.
I agree that learning statistics is invaluable.

I disagree that teaching R is the same as teaching statistics.
Only if you take 'ten' to be a number in base 10. /s
Main way we solve IO issues: We don't rely on EBS -- most data is stored on the local drives using Cassandra.

For cache throughput, our cache library adds zone affinity to memcache, so the clients are hitting the cache in the same zone first.

Also, we're now exploring their SSD options (http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-perfor...)
Yes they do. The post you are replying to even explained that. If you tell the world "we have a billion users", more companies will decide to purchase advertising on your site than if you tell the truth and say "we have 400 million users". More advertisers competing for the same number of page views means they drive the price per view up, just as any other increase in demand without an increase in supply will drive up prices.
What server options are available for your applications on the cloud?
> And worse (or better, depending on your tastes), just over the horizon is an explicit Patent Office rule change that will grant a patent to the first filer, regardless of whether or not that person has any connection to the creation of the idea being patented

That's not correct. The difference between first to file vs. first to invent is how priority is determined when two or more parties are trying to patent the same thing.

Under first to invent, you take all people who meet all the requirements for a patent (they invented the thing, it's new, useful, non-obvious, and so on), and then try to determine who among them invented first. This is often difficult to determine because the invention date is when you first conceived of the idea and started working diligently to reduce it to practice. If you stop working on it, and then resume, you invention date moves up to the date you resumed.

Under first to file, you take all the people who meet all the requirements for a patent (they invented the thing, it's new, useful, non-obvious, and so on), and give the patent to the first one who filed.
There are not enough upvotes in the world for this comment :)
You can have two types of job postings - One is fixed bid and other is hourly. If you selected hourly then contractors demand 30% down before they start working for you. Once they get that 30% then they are gone and Odesk does not care to help you to get your money back.

And, in case you decided to go with hourly then people keep on asking for more hours and you can't see the work until they have clocked few hours. You still have to pay even if you don't like their work. Again, oDesk will not help you to get your money back.
Linode's storage is prohibitively expensive compared to EBS and S3. Their instance sizes are all based on a $1/GB flat rate with no volume discounts.

If anything, this has to be slashed in half somehow. It's been a few years since this has been adjusted.
So, you're saying that people who have sufficient disposable income to purchase a very expensive sports car that they can only "refuel" near their home needn't worry about how much it's going to cost them to do so?

I'm relieved.
There needs to be a w3fools equivalent for Smashing Magazine.
I can see why people think RSS is dead, however with services like ifttt RSS has become so much more useful.

Here are some of my more useful recipes involving RSS.

* The obvious. Getting the latest and greatest post from a small selection of high quality sites delivered to my email. (this amounts to about 4 emails a week)

* Github commits rss feed get texted to me.

* Github wiki page edits RSS feed are emailed to me.

I know I'm speaking to the choir but standard structured data is vastly useful.
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Do you know how many "dime-store VPS providers" there are, and how many of them have existed as long as Linode and longer? Linode provides a valuable, quality service, and has lots of extras that you may not need.

Some VPS providers specialize and have a good history of both uptime and support, and provide it for less than the big-name competitors. I've found many to be exceptionally reliable with good support, and there are communities where you can find reviews and status on such providers to back up their claims.

And in the end, realistically, if you're doing small scaling by the hour you probably don't need the biggest providers in the game. A small service provider for a small company is often a great fit.

You can check out reviews on http://www.lowendbox.com/ and http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ and compare prices, services and reputation. In general, a standard small-sized VPS will be half the cost of Linode, meaning you can buy double the VPS's (on different providers, for example) and get double the capacity and redundancy for the same cost. If you spread them out by region you can implement cheap software GeoIP load-balancing and serve the content by servers closest to your users.
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